2. For regulation 5(2) of the Planning General Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015(1), substitute—
“If an application for planning permission for development to which regulation 3 applies is referred to the Department under section 29 for determination by it that section shall have effect subject to the modification that, in subsection (7), for the words “the applicant and the appropriate council” substitute “the interested council” and for the words “the applicant or the council so requests in writing, the Department shall afford each of them an opportunity” substitute the words “the interested council requests in writing, the Department shall give it the opportunity”.”